1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,000 This is Hacker Public Radio episode 3,934 for Thursday the 31st of August 2023. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Today's show is entitled Crusader Kings 2. 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,000 It is part of the series computer strategy games. 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,000 It is hosted by Tuku Toro To and is about 38 minutes long. 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,000 It carries a clean flag. 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:37,000 The summary is Tuku Toro To rambles about her all-time favorite strategy game Crusader Kings 2. 7 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Hi, this is Tula Turto and you are listening to the Carp Public Radio. 8 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Today's episode is about my one of my all-time favorite games Crusader Kings 2. 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,000 This episode is inspired by the Ahuka series about the strategy computer games. 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:04,000 So the Crusader Kings is a Dynasty simulator set into Middle Ages. 11 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Some sort of rule and you have to guide your Dynasty through the times. 12 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 The time frame is from 769 to 83. 13 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 It is a paradox game, so there are plenty of DLCs. 14 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,000 If you are interested in trying this out, don't go buying all of those. 15 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 It gets expensive. 16 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,000 You can just try out the base game and see if you like it or not. 17 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:42,000 You are like I said, this is a Dynasty simulator, meaning that as you value a playing as a rule, 18 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:56,000 you can get count or dash, dual code, dushes or king queen, emperor, Empress, and then some auto, auto titles depending on the DLCs you have. 19 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:02,000 You are playing as that rule, making a choices, that rule would make. 20 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 But your focus is the Dynasty. 21 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Your ruler will die at some point, then somebody else will inherit the titles and carry on. 22 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Your primary focus is to make sure that there is always somebody in your Dynasty that will inherit your stuff and keep going. 23 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:33,000 So there are some stats and traits and stats that affect on your character. 24 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:41,000 You can be a good op-hat in a thing like stay craft or spy craft or Marsal. 25 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:47,000 You could be an intricate weapon if you are very good at the spy craft. 26 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,000 And those affect what things you can do. 27 00:02:51,000 --> 00:03:16,000 And basically it's not a turntable game, it's a possible real time game, real time in a sense that when it's unpost the time we'll keep taking, but of course it won't be the real real time game, but actually it won't be because otherwise that those hundreds of years would take hundreds of years to play. 28 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:24,000 You don't have any specific goals except of reaching to the end you can basically choose, but you want to do. 29 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Sometimes I have wanted to conquer as much of the land as possible. 30 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Sometimes I have wanted to build some really cool, cool monument to show off my power and wealth. 31 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:46,000 And sometimes it's a thing like I was playing as a Finnish tribe. 32 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:53,000 And then when it's to unite all the tribes and form the Finland as a country. 33 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:01,000 And then in the later one form the kingdom of Scandinavia, that was kind of kind of neat. 34 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:13,000 There's a lot of choices, lot of things to do in the game and those depend on what kind of culture you are playing. 35 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:26,000 If you're playing a Finnish tribe, you have quite a different choices than if you're playing as a nomadic tribe in a someday in the Siberia. 36 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:41,000 The geographical area of the game is Europe and big portions of the Asia and some portions of the Northern Africa. 37 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Because the focus is in ruling your dynasty when keeping it alive, you of course need a spouse so that you will have somebody to inherit the stuff. 38 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Presumably your children, but depending on the laws of your realm, somebody else might inherit your titles. 39 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:13,000 And the inheritance is a pretty big part of the game. 40 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Lots of different kinds of systems that you can not really choose, but sort of kind of choose. 41 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:38,000 If you want to change your inheritance laws, not everybody will be happy about the change and not all choices will be always available. 42 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,000 One of the hardest one, for example, is the gavel kind. 43 00:05:43,000 --> 00:06:00,000 It allows you to have a really big control, like you can control a lot of land, but when you die, all your titles are basically split to between the all your children. 44 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:13,000 And then the opposite end is one way you can nominate your inheritor, her, and then inherit everything. 45 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:20,000 So that's a big of play in that one. 46 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Managing your haters will also be a big part of the game, because say you have a couple, couple sons, couple daughters, you can actually get them engaged with the children of your neighbors. 47 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:48,000 And that will form a, but that not true, but a, well, this is basically a, 48 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:53,000 those neighbors are not no longer a threat to you. 49 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,000 So you don't have to be afraid of them attacking you. 50 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Of course, if you are going to marry your son to the, to the, to the princess of the next kingdom, that will have effect on the, who will inherit the kingdom in the end. 51 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:22,000 So there's a quite a bit of political maneuvering that you can do with, with engagement and marriages and shots. 52 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:41,000 And it's a good idea to get your offspring, as is the engaged, is not married soon enough, because otherwise, when they turn off the age, they will go and just marry off somebody who might not be the test from the political stand. 53 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:56,000 So because you are rule, if you are not going to deal with all, or everything by yourself, you are going to have a, what else, depending on them, what kind of, 54 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:06,000 system you have, like, mostly it's a, most system has some, most cultures have some sort of what sort of system. 55 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:17,000 This, this means that you have, for example, if you are king of the skin, king of the France, for example, 56 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:29,000 then you directly don't control all of that land, but you, you have a primary title, like you could have a, 57 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:37,000 for example, you could have set up your court in the Purgundy, and that's what you control directly and some counties. 58 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Yeah, and then your vassants who are, well, tell your vassants, you have handed them titles and they control rest of the France. 59 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,000 You could, in theory, have all that land by yourself, but then everybody would hate you. 60 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And the Piger, you, Realme, the more you will have vassants, and then more difficult it will be, because all those vassants, well, not all, some of them are happy to be of vassants, but some of them will have ambitions to replace you with themselves. 61 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:20,000 You have to keep an eye on the, all the political moves that they are making. 62 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:31,000 And here, it is a coup if you have, some, some body, who is coup, coup in spycraft, to help you to detect various plots. 63 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Because, they, they might want to have you assassinated, or you might want to have them assassinated or something like that. 64 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:53,000 So, there's a, all kinds of political maneuvers, and then from those, your vassals, some of them are selected to form your council. 65 00:09:53,000 --> 00:10:06,000 They are the closest ones to you, there's a, they offer the guidance, but they also are like, you have a, for example, Marshal. 66 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:18,000 You can send that person into a, to train your moves fast, or you can have them to help you to pull better in your country. 67 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:26,000 And your spy master can either try to detect plots against you, or they can go and sue some. 68 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,000 This order to some neighboring country that you want to conquer eventually. 69 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:38,000 So, they are really useful for you, but the council will, will fight for the power. 70 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:45,000 They will, like, in the beginning, for example, you can declare wars easily. 71 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:54,000 You can just, you need a castle spell, you like, you need a real reason for war, you can just, you will go, that I want to conquer this place. 72 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:02,000 But, in the beginning, you can, if you have some reason, you can start a war. 73 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:11,000 In the later one, the council might start saying, that no, we don't want to attack this one, they are going to battle, yeah, decision. 74 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:21,000 So, they are fighting for the power and you're fighting against them, because the stronger the council is, the harder it is for you to rule. 75 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:29,000 And then, council into play, you can promise favors to your council members. 76 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:39,000 And vice versa, they might promise favors for you, meaning that when the council is voting about some decision, you can calling those favors. 77 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:47,000 And make them to vote in the way that you like, would like to have them, things. 78 00:11:47,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Okay, so the titles are big part of the game title means, well, it means who you are, there's been what you control is your king, you are a kingdom to rule. 79 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 And if you are count, you have counted the rule. 80 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:13,000 And if you're only a count in the game, you probably will have a tool called Duchess who is your leech. 81 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:25,000 And they might do things like, when you leech is voting a war, they don't want to only use their own manpower from their own holdings. 82 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:32,000 But they will call the vassals to provide fighting force for them. 83 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:42,000 And that's why the vassals are nice to have. Of course, if you have raised your armies of your vassals for a long time, they will get angry. 84 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:48,000 And like I said, you need a reason for war. 85 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:58,000 I can't defend your culture or what you actually are ruling. 86 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:14,000 The simplest one is that you have your counselling number to forge some documents that stated, yes, this king has a right for this piece of land, so now you can add that piece of land. 87 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Of course, that is the slow it takes, it can take years in the game time. 88 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:32,000 And on the other hand, if you are a tribe, you have a counselling spell to just subjugate your neighbouring tribe. 89 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:43,000 You don't meet anything else, you can just say that I'm a Finnish tribe and you are a Swedish tribe, and I want your land, so let's fight for war. 90 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:53,000 But while they're conquering the lands, it's one way of growing your kingdom or real realm. 91 00:13:53,000 --> 00:14:13,960 There's other ways, and I like these other ways a lot more. I like the political maneuvering in this game, because you can, if you want to land for the long term, you could say you are king of France, and you'll notice that you're neighbouring king of 92 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:25,960 Spain for example, example that they have a daughter who is unmarried, and then they have couple sons who are older than them. 93 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:34,960 So, and by the inheritance laws that those sons would inherit the kingdoms to stay. 94 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:59,960 You can just have your son engaged with that princess of the Spain, and then at some point you can arrange accidents, like plots against those other people in the line of success and making sure that in the end that princess will actually be the queen of the Spain. 95 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:16,960 And they are offspring who you have said that he will be of your dynasty, not the Spanish dynasty, that this can be said in the new negotiating about the marriage terms. 96 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:24,960 So, that son who is of your dynasty will inherit the kingdom of Spain. 97 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:36,960 So, this will take a couple generations to come into the fruition, so it's a slow that you can grab a big piece of land if you get lucky. 98 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:55,960 Another thing that I did in the, when I was playing, I said that the two of Purgundi was that the, the, the, the, was a kingdom who was a, they had an elective monarchy. 99 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:05,960 So, basically all the, all the dukes, when the king guys all the dukes get together and they vote who of the dukes will be the next king. 100 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:19,960 And I wasn't part of that kingdom in any way, so I first conquered one small douche. 101 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,960 So, I could get, I would be a book in that kingdom. 102 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:30,960 I was also a king of the friends at that time, but I also had that title of the book. 103 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:37,960 That need that I would vote in those, those elections for the next king. 104 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:45,960 And then I just needed to party up with all the dukes or rather enough of the dukes. 105 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:53,960 Pride them have throw them parties, give them gifts or all that stuff, so that they would vote me. 106 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:58,960 So, in the end, I got that kingdom through a voting. 107 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:06,960 And sometimes, they said, just pure luck, pure coincidence. 108 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:15,960 In one game I was so, I think I was a king at that point in the, I didn't even see actually king of friends again. 109 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:25,960 And next to me was the duzantine empire, which is huge, like the one of the most scariest, 110 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,960 empire in the game, the gigantic. 111 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:38,960 So, I tried to give a good turn with the neighbors, the Samsung dukes. 112 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:45,960 But I just left the whole setting empire, this otherwise, there was nothing I could do against them. 113 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:53,960 They were so huge and powerful, but I kept good turns with those dukes that were my neighbors. 114 00:17:53,960 --> 00:18:01,960 And then I get a message that one of those dukes has said that they don't like the current empire, Emperor, 115 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,960 and think that I would be a better emperor, and have declared a civil war. 116 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,960 I'm of course, yeah, whatever, I cannot do anything about that. 117 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:18,960 It will not affect me in any way, except that couple years later, they actually managed to one, that civil war, 118 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,960 and whole Byzantine empire was handed me on a silver plate. 119 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:33,960 Which sounded first like this really cool, what I wanted, but then I realized that I was a French king, 120 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,960 speaking French, having a French culture and all that. 121 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:46,960 And then suddenly I went, Emperor of Byzantine, my court gets moved to the other side of the Mediterranean, 122 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:54,960 and everybody else, they have different religions, different cultures, and everybody hate my cuts. 123 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,960 There was just nobody from nowhere. 124 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:06,960 So rest of the lifetime of that, now Emperor was spent pacifying that empire, 125 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:12,960 and no way I could do anything about expanding or anything. 126 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:19,960 Rest of the capitalist decades when the key thing of the was also as happy as possible. 127 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:28,960 But after the next person in the line came to be an interim thing, it's got a bit easier. 128 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:33,960 So there's some, there's some real funny events there. 129 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:40,960 And of course, if you are playing a Catholic rule, there's a really powerful ally or opponent, 130 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,960 you can party up with the Pope. 131 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:54,960 So basically, priming them and sending your court chaplain into the room to improve your terms. 132 00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:01,960 And when you are in a good terms with the Pope, you can ask them to excommunicate somebody, 133 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:08,960 other Catholic rule on which means that you can attack them freely, and then you can just craft their land. 134 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:13,960 Of course, it means that others can attack people can do that to you too. 135 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:18,960 So if you are playing Catholic rule, you'd better be in a good terms with the Pope. 136 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,960 Okay, so I... 137 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:28,960 I don't like the whole Basel managing thing. 138 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:33,960 That you have plenty of Basels that you have to look after. 139 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,960 I mean, it depends on what role you are playing if you are. 140 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,960 Emperor for example, you will have tons of Basels if you are. 141 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:53,960 King you will have less of Basels and all your laws and traditions will affect on how many Basels you can effectively pick. 142 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:59,960 But when it's in Basels, it's important, part of the game. 143 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:05,960 Basically, you have to make sure that they hate you less than they hate each other. 144 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,960 If that's the case, then things are usually fine. 145 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:16,960 If laws are fighting with each other, inside you, they aren't king, kingdom, empire, whatever. 146 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:22,960 It's not actually as bad as it sounds because it means that when they are fighting with each other, they are not fighting with against you. 147 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:32,960 Sometimes, somebody will manage to convince other Basels to form a plot and say that they want to be a king instead of current king. 148 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,960 And those are always dangerous situations. 149 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:42,960 You have to try to first break up that plot in where your another is that doesn't work. 150 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:51,960 You could decide trying assassinate that Basel, which is risky because if you get caught, people will hate you even more. 151 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:56,960 And if you don't manage, you have a civil war in your hand. 152 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:02,960 And that is always a tricky situation. 153 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:13,960 So, if that is the hate you less than they hate each other and there is no one single Basel who is stronger than everybody else. 154 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:26,960 And this game is a little bit different, maybe, from the other forex games, that there is all kinds of funny events that they happen in the game. 155 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:36,960 Like, for example, you rule, there is a thing called rule of focus that means what particular aspect that rule is focusing. 156 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:47,960 It might be that they are focusing to be as good rule as possible, or they might be focusing on the hunting of the Basel. 157 00:22:47,960 --> 00:23:00,960 There is lots of things to choose on, and this will affect the events like if you have a person who is focusing on hunting, you can get yourself a hunting dog. 158 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:06,960 And that actually boosts your health a little bit, you can go on hunting trips. 159 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:15,960 And from there you can bring a, like, what's that called trophy? 160 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:24,960 Like, some, you can show off how strong you are to your Basel's by bringing, bringing down a beer for example. 161 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:36,960 So, of course, hunting trips can be that you might have an accident, if you are hunting a dangerous animal, or somebody actually might arrange an accident to happen to you. 162 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:52,960 You can have cramped ornaments, you can build observatories, all kinds of all kinds of things and these little events are actually, but really brings up this game to life. 163 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:59,960 Managing your coat is interesting, like, you have vassals there, they are the big part of the game. 164 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:10,960 But you also have all those minor titles depending on the culture you are playing as you like, you might have a keeper of the swans. 165 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:23,960 It is basically just a fancy title that you can grind to someone, they get little prestige boots, boost from that, like other people think that they are more important. 166 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:31,960 And that's, that's all, that doesn't, and yeah, of course, it's happy because you grinded them that. 167 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:41,960 So, and those small minor titles are actually good way to get your next in line, to get started with their life. 168 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:56,960 Because if other people, when they will be a ruler, if other people already think that they are important and prestigious, it's easier to start, start it that. 169 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:16,960 Okay, and I like to approach them from the role playing game point of view, like, if I'm playing, the game I'm not thinking, and that usually thinking what is the optimal choice I'm just thinking, what would this specific character do. 170 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:42,960 And, like, it's fun, it's fun. Some of those events can be really powerful, if you know how to take other things of them, like, you might have your martial in the county to organize a fighting force, and then suddenly you have a 500 men who is just showing up and saying that, 171 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:59,960 if you want to go and rate the Venice, for example, like, if you're playing, say, Finland, you can actually take a long boat, roll all the way to the Venice and rate it, and then come back with a loads of gold. 172 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:11,960 If you are successful, that is. And, of course, if you don't get those 500 men who do something, soon enough, they will go home and be unhappy about the whole thing. 173 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:40,960 That's not good for you as a rule. So, the game is pretty complex. I'm probably misremembering all the things, like, it's about managing your court, managing your vassals, then you have the technology to preserve, it's not as big as it says Civilization. 174 00:26:40,960 --> 00:27:02,960 It's a basically it's a small improvement over time, but it will affect the game a little bit. You can, if you have a plenty of money, you can build a bonus, you could, say, build a huge category, that takes hundreds of years to complete, takes a lot of money to. 175 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:13,960 But it will be a plan, and it will give you a boost to your country, realm, whatever you want to go with. 176 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:20,960 And, of course, you can try to capture those, from other realms. 177 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:43,960 Then, there's a, especially if you are playing as a take-ons in the game, say, if you describe, in the beginning of the game, the religion is a underiform, meaning that it varies a lot, there's no central authority, it's, will it's basically the will it's an injury. 178 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:55,960 Then, actually, it is every percent of the game, but every city has a little bit different customs and beliefs, so it's not very big one. 179 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:12,960 But if you manage to, I don't remember, exact details, but you need to, first of all, you need to have a control of all the holy sites of that back under religion, and enough of, 180 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:36,960 religious authority, and then you can actually reform the religion, you can create your own religion there, you have a head of the religion, then you have the customs and everything, freedom down, and that gives you more, more control for that religion. 181 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:58,960 And, of course, there's the use of effects in the religions like catalysts and tentesa, the Indian one has a much more nuanced system. 182 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:19,960 But if you want to focus on that, be free, and when I'm playing the game, I usually, at the couple years in, as a new ruler, I already have a sort of idea to which direction I want to take. 183 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:32,960 Sometimes, sometimes, I want somebody to be like the peak of the muscle frubers, so that they can do an auto-nobles, and they can conclude the lines and everything. 184 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:47,960 Sometimes, I want to be very pure, and just be a good example to the people, sometimes, I want to be a book for who's doing studies. 185 00:29:47,960 --> 00:30:16,960 The later one is interesting, you can, if you have resources, you can filter observatory, you can start writing a book, and then you actually detect that, hey, it's a thing that the Earth isn't a center of the universe, but the Earth lives around the sun, and then you get to choose to do, I'm going to reveal this to everyone or not, and if I reveal this, then, of course, I will answer the church, 186 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:34,960 and things like that. You can join in, depending on the realization you have, of course, you can join up in a secret society, that's relatively late addition to the game. 187 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:44,960 I have mixed feelings about that, it adds something to do in the game when you don't really have much to do. 188 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:57,960 It's super powerful, like you, and I did mixed feelings about that. 189 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:13,960 There's a secret societies like you, who join in to assassins, for example, and then you, within that society, you can start, that's like a completely unutter level, 190 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:38,960 you know, that you are there inside of that society that is not confined by the borders of the countries, you can climb on the hierarchy and Peter rule of that society, and that's interesting again. 191 00:31:38,960 --> 00:32:01,960 Well, I'd probably missing a lot of, but like it's very complex game, yeah, and there's a crucial thing that I will link the show notes, the basic idea is that you guide your dynasty through the times, and you try to prove whatever you want to, 192 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:28,960 that times, technology doesn't improve hugely, then that is always the same country is always the same. Ah, different, for what test is, one of the central things about the game is that test, that's your, and the fact of, like, you, the fact of countries is the, it's what it is currently, and that's your, 193 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:43,960 means that those that by the law of the traditions would be like this, so if, if, say, a French kingdom manages to conquer the, some, does this from the Spain, 194 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:54,960 then those, does this are the fact of the French kingdom, but they are not that you are part of the French kingdom, which means that the, 195 00:32:54,960 --> 00:33:08,960 the Spanish king has claimed to do some titles because they, they are traditional ideas, they are just captured by the French king, so they can try and concute them back, that's a, one of the, 196 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:20,960 one of the most common casus bellies are reasons for the war, and that actually opens up an interesting, interesting way of expanding your country, 197 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:34,960 say, you are king of some country, and then your neighboring country has some, dashing that you would like to grab, and you noticed that is somebody who has a claim to that title, 198 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:46,960 but isn't the current rule, they are unlanded, they are, they have a claim to that title, but they don't have any land of what themselves, so you can invite that person into your court, 199 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:58,960 what you can say, just say that, come here and I make you count, okay, not that person is in your court, he is your vassal, and he has claimed to that dashing in the neighboring kingdom, 200 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:08,960 so you can press that claim, you can declare that war and say that by, by the right pool, that is, this is a vassal of mine has a right pool claim, 201 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:16,960 so you are going to conquer this land, after you have conquered that land, you don't get that dashing, you are just, 202 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:28,960 waging that war behind of that another person, but because this person, who, who, is now two of that place, is also part of, is also, 203 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:38,960 count in your court, so he is your vassal, he stays as your vassal, if you are king or enter, 204 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:52,960 and now that sushi is actually part of your kingdom, the big part of the learning about this game for me, 205 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:58,960 was just playing and seeing what happens, of course I read that quite a bit of the weekend, watch the tutorial, 206 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:06,960 but big part of the funnel of what, learning the game is just playing, seeing what happens and learning from that, 207 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:14,960 because that's probably how the king's attacking the times, also did that, they did not have a, 208 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:22,960 uh, leaky to check how to, how to best conquer the whole Europe, they just tried the best, they probably had the 209 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:30,960 other vassal and what, to help them, but hey made up, they made up stuff as they went along, 210 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:40,960 uh, then the, uh, all right, there's a, I mentioned those minor titles, like he gave, 211 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:46,960 of the swamps, some of those are more important than others, one of the most important one is 212 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:52,960 the court physician, that's the, that's basically the doctor who is looking after you, 213 00:35:52,960 --> 00:36:04,960 and you can, well, nominate basically anyone to that position, but it, it is a very, really good idea 214 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:12,960 to spend some code and time to find somebody who can do that stuff effectively, because when you get sick, 215 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:18,960 if you have a, if you don't have a confident doctor to look after you, you're going to die, 216 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:26,960 or, or you can, going to have a, some, the, the ability thing this is, because the game is 217 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:36,960 setting to the middle age, there's, of course, the, uh, chance of black dead, like the clan plague, arriving 218 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:42,960 and that is, that is just going to steep through the whole whole Europe, that is going to have a huge 219 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:49,760 effect when it happens, and at that point, you actually have actually option to close the 220 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:57,760 gauge of your castle, so you are just hold up inside of the castle, ruling guilty of quite a bit more 221 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:04,480 difficult from there, the people outside of the gates would like that at all, and eventually you will 222 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:12,240 run out of the full, there's a whole event chain relating to this, and first time I had 223 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:21,920 to plague it, it was extremely scary, scary event, you can also have a small, small, small 224 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:30,560 disease, it is like measles, it is, it will form a pandemic, it's a bad thing, but it's not as bad as the 225 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:37,360 black dead, all you can have just a flu, the funny thing is that sometimes you're not so 226 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:44,480 competing doctor will prescribe you it some treatment, like I had once I had a flu, so the doctor 227 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:50,720 just decided that you get rid of that by doing more of the, what gave you, that's so 228 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:56,800 coroning, coroning in the court forest, but naked in the night, and of course I could even 229 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:05,360 wash it after that in the game, so it's fun game, I think I haven't checked that, that the 230 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:11,200 base game is actually might be actually free to plague, or anything, I haven't been free to play 231 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:18,480 a couple years ago at least, but the DLCs will cost, or you can try to subscribe some model if you 232 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:28,160 are uncertain if you like some DLCs, and you can just pay some modest amount of money and 233 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:37,120 play with all the DLCs for a bit and see how they change the game, and if you have any questions, 234 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:45,760 comments, feedback, hit me at the Hagar public radio or even better, record your own episode and 235 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:51,280 tell how you conquered the third thing that you're going to do, this is Tula Turata signing off. 236 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:00,880 You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio.org. 237 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:06,960 Today's show was contributed by a HBR this night like yourself, if you ever thought of recording 238 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:13,120 podcast, you click on our contribute link to find out how easy it means, hosting 239 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:21,120 HBR has been kindly provided by an onsthost.com, the Internet Archive, and our Sync.net. 240 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:26,160 On the 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